... are examples of languages that have survived in written form and then been revived by later generations But a written form is essential for this, so the mere possibility of revival has led many ... efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true 'The key to fostering diversity is for ... of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which relies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears, it is lost to...

... 0-8018-7 329 -0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-4 Technical writing I Title T11 H255 20 03 808′.0665—dc21 20020 11065 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library Foreword As I stepped into ... Hopkins University Press 27 15 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21 218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise Ideas into words: mastering the ... Ideas into Words words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing ideas into Elise Hancock Foreword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS...

... Ideas into Words This page intentionally left blank words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing ideas into Elise Hancock Foreword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be able to learn science, be ... deeply with the ma- Ideas into Words terial as they with the readers Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process...

... known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu —American Medical Association 29 n A blood type Genes for types A and B are dominant, and will always be expressed ... and it’s a rating for an adult movie X is a power of magniﬁcation, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point ... Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” A 48 n (astronomy) A class of white stars When an astronomer speaks of a class A star, he refers to white stars like Sirius and Vega, in whose spectra we see a...

... few of the more than a thousand words and phrases that he evidently added to our language His coinages tend to be more a matter of tinkering or redeﬁning than of plucking words out of thin air ... dictionaries Thus family words make up a half-hidden level of language The conceptual matter of family words, like that of other kinds of words, has anti-matter, or word fugitives: meanings for which we’d ... Morning, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show, instituted a weekly sniglets-like feature called Wanted Words Its highlights are captured in two books, Wanted Words (2000) and Wanted Words...

... boundary in studying cultural words in the book “Wandering through Vietnamese culture” by Huu Ngoc It will look into the equivalence and non -equivalence of Vietnamese cultural words and their translations ... in the translation of cultural words • The main method is contrastive analysis • Data collection: The Vietnamese cultural words and their translations appear in the book “Wandering through Vietnamese ... ground, the study seeks answer for the retailing research questions: • What are the common types of equivalence used in the translation of cultural words in the book “Wandering through Vietnamese culture”...